The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

BONNET'S SILKS a LYON. —Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or manu facturer, and the more perfect the production t 3 ae greater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifin.9.- tion in Englaad ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is e:- poscd by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end of each piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., a Lyon Injurieu_x." Wear guaranteed. HER MAJESTY'S THEATI3.E. FAUST: (In English.) Nights of Performance -Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. Lemmens-Sherrington, Taman!, and Florence Lancia. 6ant.ey, Marehesi, Dussek, and Sims Reeves. Conductor —Signor Arditi. Commence at Eight o'Clock. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Manazement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, to commence with (20th time) an en tirely new Operetta, entitled FANCHETTE. Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W. Harrison. After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a stale of unprecedented magnificence, , ntitled HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six--,:ommence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and I'. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Serlo-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled SIGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, zjames, and Misses Leclercq, Atkinson, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of, the World. Clowns, Messrs. H. Boleno and C. Lauri Harlequins, M e ssrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons. Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. _Atoms ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Missed Gunniss. Prices as usuaL Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 31 Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. _BEL DE MONIO.(a Triumphant Success) will be repea'Led Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with - a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: Messrs. 11. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, jyporeland; Misses Percy, Pauline Le:lercl, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. ter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendliars Italian Chronicle-," by Mr. John BrougPam. Principal c.iarac tut' by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brough , m, Emery, Raymond, Morelatid, Smith, Clifford, C 4 Alert, Sims ; Miss M. Henrade,lMiss Lavenu, 3l rs. Lee, said hiss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is ma de to the occupants of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and that the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever, ;Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. tit HE ATRE ROYAL HAY M A RKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Braid. Gordon, Rogers, Cullentord., &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, LLidley, Hill, &,.;- A After which, TINGi ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round 1' able. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Chi*, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't gnow what to do. gW THE AIME-RC) YAL, AD ELPHI.- A.l Sole Proprietor and Manacrer, MI-. B. Webster. THIS EVENEsIG, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS: Mr L. Toole, . A.t to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Ell ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billington- . . To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortnnio and his Seven Magic Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, K. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Jose,Ols, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEA H.-EVERY MISS BATEMAN. NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN.-LEAH.-THIS EVENING, the 99th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA fEMAN. in the character of LEAH. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the pritcipal character in the new Five Act Drama at LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. RO"Yrki, %T. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. GRI;IA.T ATTRACTPIN.—First Week of Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES MAPHEWS.—Mr. J. L. Took as Mrs. Brown, 11Tr. PheLs. Mr. Fechter, and Lady Audley every evening. 1853; or, the Sensation.; of the Past Season, until further notice. Among the artistes who will appear here are Mr. Beajanain Webster, Mr. J. L. To. le, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mr. Charles Mathews ; Mrs. Stir Pri g ., Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and Mrs. Charles Matlews. THIS EVENING. and during the Week, at 7, THE ADVENTUr:ES OF A LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A CUCUMBER and 1863; or, THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON. '• - - - On SATURDAY next, Jan. 30, , ill be produced an entirely New Comedy, by L,icest , r Buckinuharn, Esq., entitled T H E SILV ER LINING, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Frank Matthews, &c., will appear. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. :llanager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, ORANGE BLOSSOMS. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND F.UR Y cF, : Messrs. Honey, Wood, Jmnies Fenton, Mesdames Swanborou.E, , h, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. To conclude with TURN 11131 OUT. Commence at 7. THE THTRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ban be had Every Evening of G. IL GLP.NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-part HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. r RIB r.—Morning, 34.46m.—Afternoon, 3h. 58m, 10-movataw.-Morning, 4h. 14m.—Afternoon, 4b. 30m, The Weather—Sun Office, Jan, 26, 1864. THERMOM ETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.22. Wind—S. ; moderate, and fine. , f :7461 ', „ ((Li LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 1864. 'ration. His arguments have much reason on their side, yet the French will be wise to weigh well the consequences before they begin an innovation in their law. It was a theory laid down by the great NAPOLEON in his early days of speculative govern , mut that the best source of social prosperity was the avoidance of extreme poverty. He admitted the necessity of social distine ' ;ions, bat denied the necessary existence of the extreme of destitution. This theory of the y outhful reformer was practically carried out in his great Code, and even an apparently plausible in fringement of which should be viewed with extreme caution. The news from Berlin, though unexpected, can :hardly create mach surprise. It is, unfortunately, only too much in consonance with the arbitrary temper and despotic opinions of the KING, whose faults as a ruler are doubled by the shortsighted And obstinate men who compose his Cabinet. The Prussian Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, ordered the committee on the Badget to report immediately - upon the vote on the Budget, given on Saturday by the Upper House. The report proposing that the vote of the Upper House should be declared null and void, was accordingly made, and at once adopted by the House. Upon this Count EUTEN BURG read a Royal Message, stating that the Diet would be closed that very day by the President of the Council. This arbitrary step was accordingly takea, and the President read a speech from the Throne reproving the Deputies in no measured terms. The "head and front of its offending" is that it has "maintained the ground whieh led to the dissolution of the previous Chamber." This is possibly intended as a warning for the future, as well as an excuse for the present ; a hint that dis solution will be the next step should the Deputies continue refractory. The Budgets are of course the primary cause of complaint. The House has not discussed the Budget of 1863, and has struck out items in the current year which are indispensable for the public ser vice, according to the views of Herr VON BIS MARK and his Royal Master. It has renewed the resolution of the former Chamber on the military budget, without first discussing the bill establishing the obligation of military service. The refusal of the loan is another subject of offence, and the house is charged with having passed resolutions, which, in the event of war, pledge it to take part against the Prussian fatherland. The Government, there fore, renounces for the present the hope of coming to terms with the Chamber, and " considers it its duty to act for the maintenance of the State." What these conveniently ambiguous words may signify remains to be seen. The announcement of the intentions of the Cabinet are couched after the manner of Herr VON BISMARK, in pompous general terms, but we know the general character of what the Prussian Premier styles "the struggle between the House of Hohenzollern and the House of Representatives." Last year this same conflict absorbed a large oharo of European attention. It was then a matter pur et simple, a resolute stand in favour of constitutional right on the part of the Chamber—an obstinate and tyrannical effort on the part of the KING and his Government to trample down the liberties of his people. This year the question is complicated by the Schleswig-Holstein dispute. Last year our sympathies, in common with all free nations, were wholly with the Deputies. This year the com batants have a fresh subject of dispute. They agree in their desire to dispossess the Danes of the sovereignty of the Dachies, but they differ in the manner of doing it. The Chamber wishes to estab lish them as an independent State, under the sway of the Duke of AUGUSTENBURG. The KING and his advisers wish to join Holstein at least to the Prussian provinces. In neither of these projects can the E aglish people take part. The Prussian deputies and the Prussian people have forfeited the warm interest felt in this country in their proceed ings by their conduct in this matter. It ill became the representatives who were resisting oppression— it was little fitting for the people who supported them in the struggle to invade the rights of their neighbours. Apart from the moral wrong, this enthusiasm for Danish conquests is a grave political error on the part of the Prussians. By their headstrong prosecution of the aggression on the rights of Denmark they are weakening their own position towards the Crown, towards France, towards Europe generally. The infatuation which urges them on reminds one of the old saying, Quern Deus mat perdere, prius dementat. The Prussians are themselves applying the torch to a bonfire that they themselves may have the bitterest cause to regret. Neither of the two great German Powers are in a position to court war. Prussia, with her Rhenish provinces lying temptingly within the reach of France, may look in vain for English support against the trouble she is bringing on herself. This country will not suffer itself to be entangled in her affairs, if she chooses to disregard warning and remonstrance, and to break her former obligations. The English Ministry that attempted such a course would surely rue it. Even the young Crown Prince has already lost much of his popu larity in this country from the countenance he has afforded to the pretensions of the Duke of AUGUS TENBURG. The English public may not be able to fallow all the intricacies of Almanach de Gotha, but they oan very clearly comprehend that the Prussian King, Ministers, and people are actuated by the greed of power in their eagerness on behalf of the political rights of the Holsteiners. It remains to be seen whether a nation divided against itself can succeed in accomplishing its wishes; but should the Prussians persist, as appears but too probable, in their present course, they can certainly hope for little sympathy or assistance in the misfortunes they will inevitably bring down upon themselves and their country, The Legislative Assembly of France appears to have commenced its proceedings this year with more than ordinary spirit. The eloquent discourse of M. TRIERS arrested, for a time, the most profound and universal attention. Now the Baron DE VEANCE has introduced in a very able and elaborate speech the important subject of testamentary rights and the law of succession—a question of the greatest possible importance both in a social and commercial point of view. There is much truth in the position assumed by M. DE VEANCE ; the perpetual subdivision of pro perty is necessarily attended with many evils; but, as there are two sides to most questions, so also, on the other hand, the lovers •of primogeniture and the consolidation of great fortunes are productive of very painfal results to those at the lower end of the social scale. In England we see in forcible contrast the good and the evil consequences of the latter system. Families and Heads of Houses flourish and grow strong, while individuals, countless units in the great chaos, sink frcm affluence to poverty, and from poverty to beggary. Yet, so great are the social and practical advantages of cur system that he would be a bold innovator indeed who would seek to alter or even to modify it. The fatal consegnenees which M. DE VEANCE most There are few things morn reprehensible than practical joking, and it will be a good thing for society when some more effective check is put upon it. It is not at all expedient that the present sys tem should continue, as many sad instances con stantly prove that a mere censure does not deter the idle, ignorant, and careless from the perpetration of jokes that often produce most serious results, and not unfrequently leave fatal terminations. A de plorable death through fright was recorded yester day, and an inquest was he d upon the body of the victim. A young woman, who was engaged es a dress-maker in the house of a gentleman in Hyde park-gardens, was coming upstairs when she saw a figure in white in a doorway, and the sudden shock so completely overpowered her that she was carried away insensible. She never entirely recovered, end after lingering for four months expired. A more lamentable case of the sad effects of this detestable habit of practical joking has seldom been heard of, since the death of this poor young woman was evi dently occasioned by the startling effects of the fearful apparition. It may be suggested that the verdicts of the jury in these cases are not strong enough, and in this particular instance just cited it is very strange they should have separated without at least passing a severe censure upon the unhappy indi vidual who caused the calamity. It is not enough to declare that the death was occasioned by a mis fortune. It is not to be expected t':at the passing particularly deplores d o uot, however, exist in this country; for perfect freedom with respect to disposal of personal property is permitted by the Commer c i a l property t-starnentary law of England. may be bequeathed to au eldest son or divided among the several members of a family, in accordance with the desires expressed in the will and testament of the dying father. It is diff,rent, however, in France. There the law compels the subdivision of all the property on the death of its possessor. A man with one child may bequeath half of his pro perty at his own discretion; if he have two children, he may dispose freely of two-thirds, and if the number of his family be larger his freedom in the distribution is yet further restricted. Here it is that M. DE VE4NcE desires to effect some site of such mild sentences as this will put a stop to the dangerous practice of "joking," which has produced such serious evils in so many instances, and so often laid the foundation of incurable maladies, if the fatal results of this case here recorded did not im mediately ensue. In this instance, doubtless, the perpetrator of the joke did not intend to do any harm, and may have been, as the Coroner remarked, "sincerely sorry for her folly," but the law should not so readily exonerate those charged with such offences, or allow them loop holes through which they can so easily pass, and escape the punishment they so justly merit. In other cases of accidents and injuries the same laxity is not witnessed, and where danger is apprehended the responsible party is detained until the result is known, and the circumstances duly investigated. It is certain that, morally, a person is more guilty who injures another by dressing up as a ghost, or by producing spectral illusions to frighten and startle, than one who accidentally knocks down or runs over another in the streets. In most cases of this sort the foot passengers are greatly to blame for haste, or imprudence, and the catas trophe that occurs is sometimes almost unavoid able in the hurry of business and pressure of affairs. Now planning a practical joke is a delibe rate intention, and cannot possibly be accounted for as inadvertence, or excused as unintentional, and no possible reason can be adduced to allege a necessity or a strong inducement to commit the action. The sooner the matter is regarded in the right light, aad taken up in the proper spirit, the better. It is only surprising that more strictness and severity have not been exercised in this respect, when we consider that the interests of so many are bound up in the matter, Children are constantly exposed to danger through the carelessness of nur serymaids in many respects, but in none do they incur more risks than in the practiee of " dress ing up ghosts" and other frightful images to terrify them into silence. Now, all this ignorance of effects, and non-intention to injure, that is so readily put forward as a plea for the commission of the offence, will best be cured by the in fliction of a punishment. If it is urged that the mode of procedure is hard on the innocent actors who meant no harm, it is surely much worse that others should lose their health, their reason, and their lives. The sooner such lamentable ignorance is enlightened the better, and a little rough expe rience will be the best antidote against a very absurd frame of mind, and great want of thought, which must inseparably accompany all such reprehensible practices. The effect on others is to be considered, too, in dealing with such cases, and treating the offenders. There are many who will wilfully dis regard or totally ignore the warnings that such practices are dangerous, who will pay attention di rectly they understand that they may be subjected to annoyance or inconvenience in the carrying out of their foolish games. When such stringent laws and oppressive enactments are made for the preser vation of game, in order that sportsmen may in dulge themselves in any exciting pursuit, it seems rather inconsistent that no check should be applied to this social calamity, and no steps taken by the authorities to interpose a barrier for the protection of the community. It is high time that this anomaly be rectified and this grievance redressed. Let the Legislature make the practice a chargeable offence, and it will soon be seen that, as in the case of FREDERICK's soldiers contriving to keep their hats on their heads in the wind when he had punished one for the " accident," as it was called, of the wind blowing off his hat in the midst of a review, and thereby causing great confusion, that the ignorance which now prevails as to the extent of the evils and injuries of practical joking will vanish as if by magic, and the results of the increased intelligence cannot but be profitable to the parties concerned, and most fortunate and happy for their intended victims. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Lord Pal merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, Earl de Grey, Sir Uharles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. 0. P. Vi!liers. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—The following note has been addressed by Mr. Disraeli to the members who usually act with him in the House of Commons : " Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that Parliament will reassemble on Thursday, the 4th February, and I would express my hope that you may find it convenient to be in your place that day, as business of importance may be expected.—l am sir, your faithful servant —B. DISRAELI. Hughenden Manor, Jan. 12." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PROROGATION OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. BERLIN, Jan. 25. The Chambe of Deputies. to-day ordered the Committee on he Budget to immediately report upon the vote 01 the Budget given on Saturday last by the Upper liouse. The Committee accordingly made their repot, which proposed that the vote of the Upper Home should be declared null and void. This propositionwas adopted by the house. Count Eutenburg then read a Royal message, stating that the Diet would )e closed to day at three p,m. by the President of the Council. The Diet was closed to-day by the President of the Council, who read the Speech from the Throne. The following are the most important passages : " The Chamber of Deputies has maintained the ground which led to the dissolution of the previous Chamber. The Souse has rejected the Bill refer ring to Article 99 of the Constitution, and has not discussed the Budget of 1863. In the Budget of the current y ear it hes struck out items which are indis pensable for the public service. The House has also renewed the resolution of the previous Chamber upon the Military Budget without having discussed the preliminary Bill establishing the obligation to military service. For that reason the Upper House, in the exercise of its Constitutional rights, has rejected the Budget of 1864 as amended by the Chamber of Deputies. " The Government has carried out the vote of the Chamber with regard to the Polish members ar rested for high treason, but does not consider it conformable to the respect due to public justice and to the dignity of the House. " The House has also refused the required loan proposed by the Government to afford the means of carrying out Federal Execution in Holstein, as well as for the maiatenance of Prussia's position as a great Power and her honour in the further develop ment of the cocflict, and likewise for covering the portion of the expenses of the Execution falling to Prussia ae member of the German Confederation. The House rejected this vote, although the King had pledged his word, i❑ his reply of the 27th of December, that the money should only be em ployed for the protection of the right and honour of the country. " The House has passed resolutions by which the majority, in the event of warlike complications, takes part beforehand against the Prussian Fatherland. "Renouncing, therefore, for tha present the hope of bringing about an understanding with the Cham ber, the Government considers it its duty to act for the maintenance of the State, and relies herein upon the growing support of the country." SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 26. The Correspondencia states that the Finance Minister has drawn up a project to improve the revenue of the State and limit the expenses of the public service. -- o --- THACKERAT'S LAST WORK.—Charles Dickens, writing about Mr. Thackeray in the February num ber of the Cornhill Magazine, says:—" On the table before me there lies all that ho had written of his latest and last story. That it would be very sad to any one—that it is in expressly so to a writer—in its evidences of matured designs never to be accomplished, of intentions begun to be exe cuted and destined never to be completed ) of careful prepa ration for long roads of thought that he was never to tra verse, and for shining goals that he was never to reach, will be readily believed. The pain, however, that I have felt in perusing it has not been duper than tire conviction that he was in the healthiest Vigour of his powers when he wrought on this last labour. In respect of earnest feeling, far-seeing purpose, character, incident, and a certain loving picturesqueness blending the whole, I believe it to be much the best of all his works. That he fully meant ft to be so, that he had become strongly attached to it, and that he be stowed great pains upon it, I trace in almost every page. It contains one picture which must have cost him extreme distress, and which is a masterpiece. There are two chil dren in it, touched with a hard as loving and tender as ever a father caressed his little child with. There is some young love, as pure and iullf;tent and pretty as the truth. And it is very remarkable that by reason of the singular construes tion of the story, more than one main incident usually be longing to the old of such a fiction is anticipated in the beginning, and thus there is an approach to completeness in the ftegurant, as to the satisfaction of the reader's mind concerning the most interesting persons, which could hardly nave been better attained if the writer's breaking-off had been foreseen. The last line he wrote and the last proof he cor rected are among these papers through which I nave so sor rowfully made my way. The condition of the little pages of manuscript where death stopped his hand shows that he had carried them about, and often taken them out of his pocket here and there, for patient revision and interlinea tion. The last words he corrected in print were, And my heart throbbed with an exquisite bliss.' God grant that on that Christmas-eve when he laid bis head back on his pillow and threw up his arms, as he had been wont to do when very weary, some consciousness of duty dune and Christian hope throughout life humbly cherished, may have caused his own heart so to throb, when he passed away to his Redeemer's lest. YOUNG POETS are reminded by a sagacious critic in the Saturday Review that they rarely take the trouble to imitate any living poet under the rank of Mr. Tennyson ; whereas, adds the reviewer, the minor poets have distinct styles, and it is because they have this that they attract and please. Whatever else may be said of Mr. Browning, or Mr. Matthew Arnold, or Mr. Henry Taylor, or even of less aspiring composers—of Lord Houghton, for instance, or Mr. Coventry Patmore—this much atleast may be said, that a poem written by them obviously comes froth them, and has a cast that is recognisable and peculiar. But in the productions of unsuccessful young poets this is the very thing that is wanting. Page after page is turned over, and the versification may be good and clever in its way, but it is either imitative or colourless. The world has got the thing before, and does not want any more of it, and so the volume, when published, falls hopelessly flat, A WONDERFUL METEORITE.—The Gottinger Nachrichten gives an account of a meteorite which has been found at Obenkirchen (Schaumburg) imbedded in a mass of sand 15 feet below the surface. Its weight is about 82 pounds, and it has the form of an irregular four sided pyramid. The mass is still intact, with the exception of a smell piece, which has been removed for analysis. The surface is entirely converted into brown and black hydrated oxide of iron, plainly showing it must have fallen some cen turies ago. The iron is quite passive, aril does not reduce copper from a solution of one of its salts. The specific gravity is very small, being only 7.12. A. small portion, weighing 2.9 grs., was removed for analysis, and was found to have the following composition :—iron, 90.95 ; nickel I and cobalt, 8 . 01; phosporus, 0.64, THIS SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1864, THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. The country has ceased to look for the capture of Charleston, either by General Gilmore's army or by the ironclad navy. The many months that have passed since the last serious attempt by the Monitors have brought with them many promises, and left behind them an equal number of disap pointments ; and those who anticipated that Gene ral Gilmore's reduction of Fort Wagner would in stantly be followed by the seizure of Sumter's site, of Fort Moultrie, James Island, and all the works in the harbour, have waited in vain for the realisa tion of their hopes. The navy has maintained a blockade of Charleston harbour that even the rebels must admit is effective, if not perfect ; and oz:e news has all along kept us informed that General Gil more was from time to time training his gans upon the city, as well as " feeling" the state of mat tern along the important railroad linestretching between Charleston and Savannah. The recalling of these latter facts will remind those who fancy that out army and navy down there have been absolutely useless that they, at least, are mistaken ; for we do not doubt that the simple fact that General Gilmore has ceaselessly threatened the railroad line just mentioned has held in the vicinity and kept out of service elsewhere a very large rebel force. When another attack upon the defences of Charleston was in contemplation, prior to the assignment of Admiral Dahlgren, and Gen. Gilmore to their present commands, the ques tion, we presume, was not, 'What is the best way to operate ? but, Can we operate at all, so as to make the handful of troops in that department available for offensive operations ? Can the meagre land force there be advantageously used, or must it remain idle ? Circumstances rendered it impossible to in crease it. Not a regiment could be spared from any of our armies, and any work in the Department of the South must be done by the force already there. Two attempts against the defences of Charleston had been made without gaining a foot of ground. One was a land attack under Benham, and the other a naval attack under Dupont. Ironclads were deemed a most formidable means of offence, and it was evi dent that any plan which promieed success must involve a close co-operation of land and naval forces in some project that would allow the iron-clad ele ment to enter largely. The few thousand troops in the department were not expected to capture Charleston, but only to execute their part of a plan of joint operations. To have thrust them upon the main land unsupported against an enemy that had had two years to erect his defences and having at his back unlimited means of concentrating troops by railroad, would have been crimi nal folly. A plan of joint operations was agreed upon, each branch of service to do cer tain specified work. The plunging fire of Sumter was what the Monitors most feared on account of weak decks. That eliminated, naval men declared that the Monitors could pass up to the city. An article in the Army and Navy Journal, evidently written by some one who knows what he is talking _ _ about, tells us that the plan of attack proposed by General Gilmore was,-1. To effect a lodgment on the south side of Morris Island, which it was known the enemy were then strongly fortifying ; 2. To be siege and reduce Fort Wagner, by which all the works on Cumming's Point would necessarily fall ; 3, From the position thus gained to demolish Fort Sumter; 4. The vessels of war to remove the ob structions at the entrance of the harbour, and reach the city by running by the works on Sullivan's Island. The first three items of the above pro- gramme were fully accomplished long ago, and the fame of the performance resounded throughout the world. The echoes of General Gilmore's big guns and the arguments of the " Swamp Angel" were not our least persuasive diplomatists. For the ensuing weary months of delay there may be good rerta3n, but, whether there is or not, General Gil more is by no one held responsible for this delay. His work was done, and well done. When it was suspected that the enemy was putting guns on the channel faces of Satnter, fire was re-opened upon it. A slow fire from mortars, to . pre vent working inside, was long kept up. What ad • vantage the delay has given the enemy cannot be well estimated. It has probably entirely changed the condition of the problem. The shores of the inner harbour and the wharves of the city bristle with guns that did not exist at the time Gilmore took Wagner, and military men assert that what was feasible for the monitors to do then is very diffi cult if not impossible now ; that if they once reached tte inner harbour they could pot hope to remain there. The permanent occupation of Sumter by our troops, while the enemy hold James and Sullivan's Islands, seem to be impracticable, neither is it at all necessary. Sumter is harmless, and oannot injure the monitors. But the enemy, from his batteries, sees all the five faces of Sumter; we, from oar bat teries, see but two of its faces. The enemy has a concentric fire on Sumter—his batteries encircle it ; ours fire upon it from one direction. It would ap pear, therefore, that if it were possible to get pos session of it, it would not only be possible but easy for the enemy to get it back again. The prospect of capturing Charleston by the monitors, or by an attack after any fashion, or by any agency, from the front, does not certainly seem to be very bril liant, but still we do not believe that the rebels will hold the city all of this year by any means.—New York Times. MRS. LIRRIPER READ AND BEETHOVEN ILLUS TRATED.-Mr. Howard Glover announces another of his morning concerts—at which the entertainment will be varied by Mrs. Stirling's reading of a part of " Mrs. Lirri per." There will also be given Beethoven's Pastoral Sym phony, with scenic illustrations. NINE YEARS OF RUSSIAN FINANCES—In 1853 the funded debt stood at little above £60,000,000, and the floating debt at perhaps 10 or 12 million' more. The paper circulation was about £30,000,C03, supported by a metallic reserve of more than a third of that amount. Since that time the funded debt has risen to £11,000.000, the floating debt is doubled, the circulation of bank notes has been raised to more thanLloo,ooo,ooof, and specie pay ments have been suspended. THE ALABAMA.—By the arrival Of the Cape mail we learn that two vessels had arrived in Table Bay at the end of December with news of the Alabama. Captain Cato, of the Beatitifttl Star, reported that in pass ing the Straits of Sunda, on the 25th October last, he was informed that the Alabama had passed Angier day or two before. She had 25 men sick, and did not report any cap tures. Captain Sedgwick, of the Latona, from Singapore, reported that he had heard of the Alabama being in the China Seas, and on the night of the 6th November, off the Java Heads, saw a fine vessel of about 500 tons, with all sails set, on fire, and a bark-rigged steamer near her, which he supposed to be the Alabama. A private letter which has been shown us describes the later occurrence as follows : —"On the night of the 6th Nov., about 150 miles W.S. of Java Heads, I was called about 11 o'clock by the third officer to look at a ship on fire. I jumped out and hurried on deck. It was rather a dirty, rainy sort of a night, and we were under easy sail—royals, mizentopgallant sail, and mainsail stowed; and right ahead was seen a bright glare. The Latona was close-hauled, so as to make a little to wind ward of it, and under the impression that she was one of the cotton ships from China, which had accidentally caught fire, we burnt blue lights to let her know assistance was at hand. As we got near her we could see her plainer—a fine double topsail yard bark, royals hau led up, but not stowed, and the mainyard backed ; in fact, properly hove to, as any other ship would be for a boat to board her. She was on fire fore and aft, masts all standing, and seemingly not a soul aboard her, and no boats in sight. It was one of the finest sights I have seen at sea. It was, as I have said, rather a dirty night, and though, wo were close to the unfortunate bark, it was as light as day, all outside the halo of her light was doubly dim and black. Out of this darkness came b. long low craft, which we soon found out to be a steamer, bue we could not distinguish her colours. She passed close between us and the bark. We guessed what she was at once, snore especially as we heard in Singapore that she had been at the Cape, and was probably going towards the China Seas. The comments of our crew were rather curious, greatly in favour of the Southerners; but it was a source of lamentation the burning of the bark's fine white cotton can vas, enough to make jumpers and trousers for t all hands for some years I We expected a visit from the Alabama, but she did not come near us, as we kept away on our course. On our arrival hose the lieutenant of the - United States steamer Mohican came on board and got an extract from the log, and two days after that left, bound eastward, on a cruise. It will take a much smarter craft than she is to catch the Alabama." THE HISTORY OF THE COTTON PAIIINE.—Mr. R. A. Arnold has undertaken to write the history of the cotton f am ine. Mr. Arnold is known as the author of " Ralph ; or, St. Sepulchre's and St. Stephen's," and is a contributor to our periodical literature; besides which, he was officially connected with " T4c Public 'Works Act," FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 25.—The market has been rather firmer, but without any material improvement in prices, Threes, for the Account, being now at 66fr. 40c. Mobilier have improved to 1,027 fr. 50c. Railway Shares firm, at about Saturday's quota tions. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents . . 95 10 Do. end month.... 68 64 Do. end month.... New ditto — 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 35 Russian Credit Mobilier....lo2o Austrian Do. end m0nth....1020 Spanish Threes 5l 50 Bank Shares 3275 Flome Debt Credit F oncior .... 1220 Deferred - ._ _ Italian Loan 6B 75 RAIL Roman - rAYS. Cash. Account. 995 998 75 952 50 .. 952 50 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyona and Mediterranean 932 .50 932 50 New ditto . 887 50 .. SJuthem Western Eastern Sardinian 3BO 380 Austrian Lon , bard North of Spain Saragossa.. 568 75 570 Ditto to Barcelona FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF ATHOLE, On Saturday the mortal remains of the late Duke of Athole were interred in a vault under the ruined church of Blair, within the policies of Blair Castle. The family place of sepulture has for many genera. tions been the cathedral church of Dunkeld, but the duke had expressed a desire to be laid in this se cluded burial-place, in the midst of his favourite Highland scenery. The old church of Blair is not above half a mile from the castle, and is now en closed within the policies. It has been disused for above 40 years, and is now roofless and in ruins. The churchyard is believed to have been the burial place of the Stuart Earls of Athole, descendants of the Scotch Kings; and Viscount Dundee, who was mortally wounded in making a last stand for King James IL in 1689, at the pass of Killiecrankie, was buried there. The funeral procession on Saturday presented a mile of singular interest and impres siveuese. There was little in the outward display that; recalled the traditional funeral customs of the Highlands, but the unanimity with which the people of Athole gathered to pay their last respects to the duke showed much of the old feeling of devoted ness to their chief. As hereditary calonel of the Athole Highlanders, an exceptionally constituted volunteer body, his men rallied like a clan around him, and were his body guard on many occasions of display. For 20 years his grace had filled the office of Grand Master Mason of Scotland by constant re election, although annual changes had formerly been the custom. In this capacity he had founded many important strictures throughout Scotland, and stood deservedly popular with the whole Masonic body. At the funeral there was a full muster of the Athole Highlanders, and, notwithstanding the remoteness of the place, a large Masonic display. The funeral party, consisting of the Athole High landers, the relatives and friends of the deceased, the Masonic lodges, the tenantry, &c., assembled at Blair Castle at half-past 12 o'clock. The Rev. Court Granville, vicar of Alnwick, brother-in-law of the deceased, read part of the burial service of the Church of Eogland inside the hoase to the assembled relatives and friends, while in front of the castle the Rev. Dr. Irvine, minister of the parish, conducted prayer in the Scotch form, and the Rev. Mr. Campbell, of Moulin, led the devotions of the tenantry, assembled in the north avenue. About half-past 1 the funeral pro cession began to move, the pipers playing the mourn ful Scotch air, " The Land o' the Leal," and a small battery of artillery delivering a salvo of 49 shots to signify the age of the deceased. The Marquis of Tullibardine (now the Duke of Athole) was chief mourner, and the other pall bearers were Lord James Murray (brother of the deceased), Viscount Strathallan, Mr. Drummond of Megginch, and Sir Malcolm Macgregor. Among the company were the Earl of Mansfield, Viscount Stormont, Sir T. Moncreiffe, and many other relatives of the family. The Masonic deputations were headed by Lord Kinnaird, K.T., Past Grand Master, and Mr. J. Whyte Melville, Deputy Grand Master. While the procession was on its way the Duchess of Athole, accompanied by Miss Macgregoe and the Rev. Mr. Granville, drove by another route to the place of burial, where they arrived a few minutes before the cortege, and took up their places near the v ,ult. On reaching the churchyard the officers and a firing party of the Highlanders, and the relatives and friends, were admitted into the area of th e church, where the remainder of the funeral service was read by Mr. Granville, in the midst of a most touching scene. After the service the area was cleared, and the firing party discharged three volleys over the grave. The vault was kept open for some time to allow the people to see the coffin and where it rested, and was built up in the evening. The weather was extremely cold, several showers of snow having fallen, but, being followed by bright sunshine, the romantic scenery of the Highland valley had txn aspect Qf peculiar sool4°l;r° Eton and Rugby Football Contrasted. The grand characteristic of the Rugby game is the carrying the ball in the hand. The football, taken on the bound at Rugby—as, indeed, was of old the custom in several of the North of England and Scottish counties—may be carried through the enemy's lines until it is taken by force from the successful holder—and force in such a case includes hacking, mauling, holding, and everything but striking. The Eton play forbids carrying cff the ball altogether. The ball never rests in the hand at all; but at most passes through it to the ground. As the ball is never carried otherwise than between the feet, no personal violence is required, as at Rugby, to take it from the holder. Hacking and shinning, though not positively forbidden at Eton, are' i;ttldoua seen for the simple reason that they are not 2ecessary. Pushing is illegal, nor may the ball be cauea, thrown, or even struck with the hand. Between those tv;tl rival methods the Harrow game halts, inclining main:; to Eton. At Harrow, under certain limitations, catching is legi timate; but all shinning is strictly without the pale of the law. Upon the minor peculiarities of all the games, such as " rouges," " bullies," " bases," " nots'' —the various modes of preventing " sneaking" or " offside" play, and other features of the kind, it is not essential to dwell. While each school holds its own, none can play a common game; but if it were worth while, there is no doubt a common system might be arranged, which would not seriously in jure sport at any public school—Rugby always excepted; With respect to the carrying system, or the hand and foot game, and the non-carrying system, or the foot game, the question wears another aspect. These, in fact, are two different gaffes, not various modes of playing the same game. Etonians insist, with vehemence and plausibility, first, that the hand and foot game is barbarous (for it involves hacking and holding); and, secondly, that it is not football. The second objection may be dismissed as frivolous. History is against it, for, as above stated, the hand and foot game is not an innovation, but an original system indigenous in some parts of England. Moreover, it is open to the conclusive answer, that if it is:not football, it is something else which its admirers think as good; and so interesting a matter cannot be decided by an appeal to nomenclature. The suggestion of barbarity may have more validity. Yet even this point will carry weight if the game in itself be a great one; and that it is a great game is clear, from the fact that the modern schools, such as Marlborough, Haileybury, Cheltenham, and Clifton, are adopting it in preference to all others. An essential reason why the carrying system must, ever be popular is, that it is the only first-rate game which a hundred or a hundred and fifty players can play together. The non-carrying games by their very nature can be practised only by smaller numbers. The Right Rev. Bishop Gillis, we understand, at present lies seriously ill ; and on Sunday prayers were made in all the Catholic churches of Edinburgh for his recovery to health. LORD RUSSELL'S UNRULY AIEMBEr..—The sad fate of the courageous man who was afflicted with the possession of a pair of cowardly legs has often been the subject of commiseration. It was very hard upon him. No matter how boldly his heart beat, or what gallant resolu tions his brain might frame, his incorrigible legs always would turn round and run away at the first report of fire • arms. Lord Russell (says the Saturday Review), is just at present the unhappy victim of a combination not per haps quite so humiliating, but almost as vexatious. In himself he is the most peaceful and cautious of mankind He never dreams of war, or, if he must wage it occasionally, it is only with some of those barbarous Oriental nations who have evidently been designed by a beneficent Provi dence to serve the special purpose of testing our Arm strong guns. But beyond his dealings with these exceptional samples of humanity, he has always shown himself to be possessed of an intensely pacific nature. Indeed, it has shone forth in every period of his political life, and in his domestic as well as in his foreign policy. He has always been willing to sacrifice anything for peace, especially upon those occasions on which he had reason for thinking that his side was the weakest. Col leagues, principles, pledges, have more than once been left hastily in the lurch by this sincere lover of peace, when he saw that they were menaced, and that he might become in volved in conflict on their behalf. It must be a cruel mor tification to this tranquil and submissive spirit that he is en dowed with one of the most pugnacious pens in Europe. During the few years that he has been in office he has probably insulted more Governments than all his ten immediate predecessors pat together. It this combative bearing had been intentional, and had been borne out by the policy which followed it, the result, though disagreeable to the tax-payer, would not have reflected any igno miny upon the nation, or upon the , Foreign Secretary himself. But nothing is further from the thought of the meek and gentle spirit that sits behind that pen than ever to come to blows. If his true intentions could be mirrored in his despatches, if the abundant discretion which tempers his courage could only communicate itself to his words, foreign Powers would have no ground for the irritation which an English despatch usually excites in their minds. But he has never yet been able to gain a complete mastery over his pen. At present he has concluded a sort of com promise with it. The pen is to abstain, as a rule, from wan tonly insulting large Powers, at least when smaller Powers can be found to receive the insults instead; and whenever. from a small Power or a great, the insults shall have provoked a sharp retort, the said pen is to accept the affront in meekness, and not venture upon a dangerous reply. Thanks to this happy arrangement, peace has, up to this time, been maintained. The true character of Lord Russell's bluster has been studied in many striking examples by the Continental nations, and is by this time thoroughly understood. His despatches are no longer considered, either here or abroad, as provocative of war. They are only looked upon as a challenge to a scolding match, in which the foreign diplomatist, wielding a more delicate weapon, usually wins an easy victory. There is no harm in such an arrangement, provided that it is thoroughly understood. Words, after all, are only con• ventional symbols of thoughts; and if it is once settled that angry menaces are to mean in reality only a determination to give in, pusillanimous intentions can be expressed as effectively in that mode as in any other. The only misfor tune is that foreigners assume that the English people select for their Foreign Minister some one who suitably re presents their sentiments and character. They consequently infer, with unimpeachable logic, that a taste for blustering and a great dislike of fighting are the most conspicuous characteristics of the English nation. ANTIQUITY OF THE VIOLIN.—In MSS. of about the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries there occur pictures of men wielding the bow upon the strings; and we still see among the sculptures of our early Gothic cathe drals carvings of celestial orchestras, in which saints and seraphim are playing on various sorts of " fytheles" among other instruments. Thenceforward, until the middle of the sixteenth century, the fiddle appears in all sorts of shapes and varieties—egg-shaped, pear. shaped, and spoon-shaped, large and small, with two, three, and up to as many as seven strings. Wo are told even of a " Viols do Bordone with forty-four strings," and a " Sambuca Lyncea, in vented by Colonne, a Neapolitan, in the sixteenth century, which, it is said, had five hundred strings." At about this date, however, the now existing type had become definitely established. Viols were still made of many sizes ; but, in shape and structure, they were commonly the same as our present violins. In those musi cal days, before keyed instruments became dominant in the household, it was common in musical families to have a chest of viols ; containing two trebles, a tenor, and a bass viol, and occasionally there were duplicates of some of the instruments; at Hengrave, for instance, there was a chest of six viols, Sir Thomas More, who was fond of music, kept viols and an organ in his house. The bass was called "viol da gauaba" or leg-viol, the tenor, "viol da braccio," being played supported by the arms, (Is the German liratsche a corruption of this name ?) The fact is that with all our advance in practical skill we have been unable to improve on the models known 300 years since, unless it be in some of the minor details. DR. MAINE'S PRIZE SILVER GOBLET BRIMMED WITH GOLD.—By the will of the late Dr. Swiney funds are vested in the Society of Arts for awarding, in concert with the Royal College of Physicians, on every fifth anniversary of Dr. Swiney's death, " to the author of the best published treatise on Jurisprudence, a silver goblet of the value of £lOO, with gold coin in it to the same amount." The award of the judges appointed by the will was made 031 the 20th instant in favour of Henry Sumner Maine, Esq., D.C.L., late Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge, and now member of the Legislative Council of Ind a, the author of a work on Jurisprudence entitled " Ancient Law." The goblet has been executed by the Messrs. Garrard, after a design, especially prepared for the Society of Arts, by Daniel Maclise, Esq., R.A. The next award will bo made on the ' 20th day of January, 1869, when a work on Medical Jurisprudence will be selected. A FRENCH MEMORIAL TO SHAKSPERE.—Victor Hugo has a new work in the press upon Shakspere. It is to appear towards the end of February, just before the three hundredth anniversary of the great poet's birthday, which it is intended to commemorate. The book is to be dedicated to England, as the country in which. the great French exile has established his home for so many years. M. Louis Ulbach, in speaking of this work, says :—it is a profound and exhaustive study, made with respect, with reverent fear, but with independepce, of one of the I of greatest men." " .Alty E Ara-tfflll 4. • 1, cs , g HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, JO. Yd , The Archbishop of Dubliu and Lord lirodelaoloB had audiences of the Queen. The Queen, Princess Louise, and Princesg Beatrice, went to Frogmore House this naoalng'for e and left it at half - past one o'clock, p•a, ial Great Western Railway station , where a °Peto train was in readiness to c onve y her 31,jest/ GQsporr. Her Mjesty was attenled by the Mares lioo.S lf of Ely, the Han. Dr n. Mrs. Brae - , Colon el the Ho)zmann. T, Ldpi The Marchioness of Ely has Succ Churchill as Lady in Waiting. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Si: 31, .Bid du:pla, sod . Departure of the Queen for Osborne, W INDS OR, Monday' Niet'ea This morning her Majesty the Qv° viel inat th© Prince and Princess of Wa les and their 0 - eo, son at Frogmore; and after lunch the 9:lAeece accompanied by their Royal gighnesses the •` . ce , of Wales and the Princess L ouise and Baritt and attended by Colonel Sir T. the Marchioness of Ely, and tae te° Bruce, left Frogmore at about tia'eurYwraol--ti▪ uot to two . o'clock, and drove to Ole " ▪ 1 terminus of the Great Western 1:131-slchea where a special train, to which w as a tti c : r to the two state saloons, was in readiness ill . ° : - I. :rae , convey the Queen to Gosport, en route to tfr a l l On alighting the Royal party' were recei`t er - Colonel Sir C. B. Phipps, the Right lion , S r ll3 ed Walpole, M.P. (who ' accompanied- t h e treirq' u s ,/, Messrs.. Grierson (the general manager), irlC'etettl Burhason, and Matthews, of the Glreat "e: Railway, while the Prince of Wales eseetle"o6 Royal mother and sisters to the state salooe. too Royal passengers having taken thei r seats tbe immediately started, leaving t h e s tation at 1.'6!P;11 precisely. The Queen looked more cheer ftu - smiling than has been noticed for sonie I‘f r The spectators on the platform checree'" jesty loudly as the Royal train left the retilloote , a mid which the Prince of Wales l eft for F°g-4(1,11 On leaving Windsor the specia l train Pr°e-tea' rapidly, via Slough and Reading, to Bas a l,oet ri Rion . g the narrow-gauge rails of the' Great " - t - eo 10 Railway, where it arrived at about ten 1 13 i rj/I . a . fa o three o'clock. Here the care of the trill- e" handed . to the charge of Mr. Godson, t he . tr i gsi , superintendent of the South-Western 11411 4 t ° along which line the remainder of the jeurl'" the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, G°Partolliij performed; . and where her AlejestY, rilejtor family, and suite, embarked on board ° I ' m for yacht, and proceeded to Cowes, 0 2 . l ' 9l4 ,, f ich ra Osborne, which it was expected would be r— about five o'clock in the evening. -_-.--- , 11 0 The Duke and Duchess o f MarlbOr°llP 4Yit' Quare WQ°ci ei i ' 04 expected at their residence in St. Taes's ensuing week from Blenheim Pal ace, near " the season. A 0 t from The Duke of Newcastle is able to atteti.-c ito64 f° - official duties attached to his office as Secretary' ° f ro l 3 the Colonies, Council. onie s,but , b y thetur d advice a y si ,a bn o of e his t e p d h Y li s i i ra c : i ; ;:or 3 consultation a on s a 10 6 Cabinet The late Duke of Cleveland's funeral too > ' 1 01 to-day at Rab y. ~, s treet on The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisburiitid" at the family mansion in Ar lin g ton- next from Paris. a t° The Marquis of Gallifet has rettiraeopio Claridge's Hotel from Kimbolton Castle, iiillithigf 10 The Earl Granville, the Lord Presideet of The Coundt, w wilt give a full-dress Parliamentary f i c i3ro e ~,.°'' street, evening, the 3d proximo, at his bons° '''' P . ' poreteetr,sßoefrktheeleyGettranrem,stnota. numerous party of Peer° 01; ~ti oi The Countess Vane and family have left Cl' Hotel for Wynyard-park, near Stockton, DurObelts'; The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey iii 0 3, t The medical report yesterday was more favourable' 1 1 3$ ° ed ° are informed that all danger is over. The coutso°os* I been confined to the house so long as has been ril and her illness arose from a se vere cold. t e /li lt The Count and Counte sss de la Bed 0 nieolo arrived at Claridge's Hotel, ;nom a visit to Fi t' Manchester at Kimbolton Castle. /„. 9 t o Viscount ralMerStOla will give a full"fss 01 0 0 . liamentary dinner at Cambridge House, Picca d) ,l -' e a l /°- i 6 3d CFebruary, to the Right Hon. the Speaker of .3 ;0" mmons and a large circle of members of r connected with the Government. DOO °II Lord Stanley, M.P., comes to toW il tirl , ni from Knowsley-park, Lancashire, for the 50013%404 -1p Mrs. Gladstone and Miss Gladstone 611.- , pri lit 'l Saturday at the Chancellor of the Esellecillset elifil' 1 mansion on Carlton House-terrace, from ig. I f seat in Flintshire. O --------- _het ~ ----- AGREEABLE ri el 3tlij' , 7 o" o . LIGHT 'READING."'" - 13 0 0 19 i giot new German pamphlets on SchlesWir,,4lllo go legion. We notice, within the last few c l ,,, il „ . ° e ' ess i° ;ii o " Votum iiber die Schleswig-Holsteinsche ' .1. " • ot' und das Recht des Augustenburgischer, lifesore;sfiLrt 'l9,' "Das Recht des Herzogs Friedrich voa ~R o as - :13 °',, stein ;" "Redo über die Schleswig-liolste;lloofrier za, genheit," by the same; " Stamtubauna doe jkcitte' etta j; steinehen Fiirstenhouses;" "Friedrich dei:gecht d oss ci t von Schleswig-Holstein und sein glitefierstli.,,,-tt:t ; " Genealogisch historiche "'del zurn ' VP', iso D e l ; Schleswig-Holsteinschen Frage ;" la i° c ier '' ll is „ r atst 1 ": , Schleswig-Holsiein, Gedriingte Darstellnag d i e s'" -- ro i J o Ereignisse auf welchen das Staatsreeht ii, r * a ,t35 1336 0C ',, tolge der Herzrzth Uhler beruheu, von Dr- e a rl y' to ' SO; " Das Verhaltniss Schleswig-Bolstein's nr ,. °ll ert rog ca, t,' t)Jt by _Leopold Neumann; "Der Londoner v ge pra' 3 ;0 11 Mai, 1852, in seiner rechtlichen Betleatu3Leeds, -, 14 Dr. G. Beseler ; Warnstedt, " Schleswig,'" ~er ' l3 - ac . i er Deutschland's Ptlicht," &o.; Rendsburs' ()deli, o' l , Kurliirst ;'' " Preussen's Aufgab e ti r an c le tio 4/ 7f,, " Autruf air Schleswig-Holstein, .l''', ° ,l ) . - e ber ° '"fli ' 11 ,, 1 . von Oesterreich," by F. Kiiraberger ; ..., AlelSell;_nto 0' Holstein's Staatserbfolge," J. '''''' •011 0 )-1 De i s , "Der Danisehe Erbfolgesbreit a di ° - te 3 politik," Sze. Difi •tl; even th e x ';, Not only the authorised, but ev-itettlo..,api:: editions of Renan's book seem cautionsto s iren the ; 0 1 ; undiminished vigour. A Berlin firm rbte d coP' 0 0 against the use of certain literal, ha s P tiv i t . 0:0 9 „ German translation which appeared at 0 0 ° leo, i G o week* ago. A JUNIOR ATIIEN/EUA L. s /1 10 ii, t oo 0 --Theta, s i S ..ojor At do t? London for the establishment of a ' u $O lO P r j° Club," to be conducted on very inuch,ptile 5 i 0 'VI V I as the present far-famed " .A.thenaaam... heat )0 :,,r1 FRENCH SPEAKING is of the lg .o ° aio iF le r o &le e is' 0 own peculiar way, and it is ruP. Lai 6,11;01 i 3 in the one language that is understooddbl_ o,,,eskinl!ttel. , sons. Whatever praise can be lavishe w c' ... =', e l; is A . i 1 : 103 1 ; is simple in language and lofty in tone, : 1 _, ,, ' . d, . ts ditc , i ' ot ecO o t with consuinmate ssill to the purpose ie . Jr .. ' ,,er gy 0 1 400 the adroitness of forensic oratory with th Bo 'o"'" i ate le l otit i .4 feeling, may be lavished on the discot!r ~s . ' r eat jeecl ,eo ot the French Opposition. There Duty e D e l ato o f de°, 6 io, v , the different performances, and a larq.,:io oli the re shortcomings in the best of them. PO WO iilt 4O Saturday Review. red 1° t t " unmistakeable impress of a keen, warp, 5° 41.0,,0 It is s te t ttb o f t o .ESSAYS AND RINIEWS.-- likely to be well inibraied on lengthened delay on the delivery 0 0 . ) . .. _ the vivo,c;-:_ j ' A Judicial Committee of Pr ivy CounnidlM..,..liarcio, 05.,40c1,., Bishop of Salisbury v. Dr. Rowla .r0i.,,,,„ri„t,,,,,,,,,, Rev. J. Fondall v. the Rev. 11, 33 . 16 amt o ce P p ar ° Ch i ' Vr foot that there is a divisions lass 'P ini" e the V ra of lid bets who heard the case. 0 we r b.bietioP pif o f the l's-r° the os thetuSellibtliciegc,n_Los;,:i:l: the Archbishop of Canterbury, . o _ o, eo d .. „ o rd, o o Lord Crauwor th, Lord Eling.i_:out du ring' tri ' e r. p s o , ; riot , of London. Earl Granville Was 1 : ethaseep.rToeheeedriunlngso,ubruits tto:tltrtntoo.opajurotric.in cit_..,hn. eaool:cFlotae:rililleeer'aii'liot:fiiel:i worth, and Lord K in g. titirlethie ,S ..„, c:our. - f A _ r t i l s s li i l oo judgment of Dr, Cushing usion ~ lr v el o t : i1 pee rs o io. ' and that it 031:50. ood eo ,p irit 00 De ti p ol t Clth3t the judgPmeesnatltwyaosf rbiug-.l,:tb-h:_tiburit,:u't'bo c_ . ,,, jaas turbed. In the event of thr e' Lashing t,O. .(151" Pti:rdevt.hdeefendants ; whilet A 1 ,1 be a id, . 1 ; - Call i cy 4. 0. 0 r oP , DIE: GREAT EASTERN. •_, ~ vest °b a .h e Great -- i - t 7 h I, NGviritiins Nt7ainildo. declining to v and Co. announce that L e __o, on t he _ 4 , 0 eti eti , sold by auction, without 0 . r v ,_ _web Ctlric.,it,itsPe-4!1 Yesterday- the late stewardor :.:100.10;iths hit re: -, to y_ l,l name, was sent Soilingrison f 1 nantity of the s ‘1,....5,re1i0 has cellent chara , ~e ittt t i i) A sever receiv vane x said that many oi t..re „De 0, t p ote,--j:.STS. magistrates for st a q Captain Pat, wi'le !,. taken were his there are about bog portgageo e a her, is in the possafsPiOr;lueifsittb-ee. iserili °f iAlle s• It al:sotetra,ivro;:osillii,recio: cie ~i